Have you ever wondered whether it would be possible to design a game by playing a game? Well, let me introduce you to Game Seeds, a card game designed to aid...

Heavy Rain received immense critical praise for being an experience that elevated video game storytelling to a new level. In this article, we'll look at why...

Thomas Was Alone is a minimalist platformer, starring multiple characters... who are all simple rectangles. Despite this, the gamer grows attached and hopes...

With so many games to play, getting the player up to speed on how to play your game very quickly and in the most entertaining way possible is almost...

Every game must find a balance between the two opposing forces of luck and skill. You might not care, but your players do: if you don't consider this...

Sid Meier. If you’re reading anything on this site, you probably already know who this man is. He's one of the biggest names in game development, has been...

Ever played a game that was packed with great set pieces, concepts, characters, and mechanics, but nevertheless felt boring? Perhaps the problem lay in how...

In this two-part tutorial, you'll learn how to use JavaScript and HTML to create a card matching game powered by the Flickr API. Check out the demo, and read...

Ever wanted to make a platformer, but not too keen on writing all the code from scratch? The Citrus Engine doesn't eliminate code entirely, but it makes it...

In this tutorial series we will create a high-performance 2D shoot-em-up using Flash 11's new hardware-accelerated Stage3D rendering engine. We will be...

In this part of the series, we’re adding gameplay elements such as health, score, and lives, the GUI elements to display them, and game logic transitions to...

We're creating a high-performance 2D shoot-em-up using Flash's new hardware-accelerated Stage3D rendering engine. In this part of the series we add new enemy...